adoption

HBO Max documentary series about the Barnett case: the 2010 Indiana adoption of Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace and the neglect prosecution of her adoptive parents.

A 14-year-old girl reported missing in 1989 was murdered by her adoptive father Dennis Bowman, who concealed her remains for three decades before confessing in 2020.

Between 1926 and 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency that trafficked an estimated 5,000 children to wealthy out-of-state families. Her black market operation involved kidnapping, coercion, forgery, and systematic abuse—generating over $1 million in illegal profits before state investigators closed her operation.

Wondery's six-part investigative series Liberty Lost, hosted by T.J. Raphael, examines allegations that the Liberty Godparent Home in Lynchburg, Virginia pressured pregnant teenagers into adoption throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The podcast features interviews with former residents who say they were isolated from family and boyfriends while being steered toward placing their babies with Christian couples.